Woodturning exhibition at Ballybane Library
Thu, Dec 02, 2010
AN EXHIBITION of work by the Galway Chapter of the Irish Woodturners Guild is currently on show in the Ballybane Library.
“Galway has a vibrant group of wood turners. We meet twice a month, hold competitions, demonstrations, and encourage wood crafts,” says George Anderson, secretary of the Galway Chapter of the Irish Woodturners Guild.
Read more ...Thelma Mansfield to exhibit at Kenny’s
Thu, Dec 02, 2010
FOR YEARS Thelma Mansfield was the face of afternoon TV in Ireland, but over the last 10/15 years, she has become better known as an artist.
Read more ...Ruth Cadden’s Seductive Mythology
Thu, Dec 02, 2010
SEDUCTIVE MYTHOLOGY is the title of a new exhibition by the An Spidéal based artist Ruth Cadden, which will be held in the Town Hall Theatre bar.
Read more ...Proust Questionnaire
Thu, Dec 02, 2010
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Playing good music, eating good food, drinking good wine with good friends.
Playing good music, eating good food, drinking good wine with good friends.
Read more ...Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Thu, Dec 02, 2010
Well it has been a long time coming and with such anticipation leading up to the penultimate installment of the Harry Potter film franchise it was always going to be hard to please some viewers but for me, the wait was worth it. The only drawback is having to wait for the next one.
Read more ...Win Twilight Saga goodie bags
Thu, Dec 02, 2010
ECLIPSE, THE latest instalment of the film version of The Twilight Saga, starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, is released on DVD and Blu-ray on Saturday December 4.
Read more ...Galway Film Society Christmas screenings
Thu, Dec 02, 2010
CHRISTMAS IS coming and it is a time to enjoy and indulge and have a laugh, and take a little break from the misery that our failed and incompetent Government has heaped on us.
Read more ...Charity gig for Help Them Hope
Thu, Dec 02, 2010
THE SUMBRELLAS, the Galway Gospel Choir, Keith Mullins, Leon, and Paddy Gunning will play a charity concert at the Galway City Museum tomorrow at 8pm.
There will also be a cake sale, raffle, and a performance of traditional dance from Peru. The concert is organised by Atlantic Language Galway in collaboration with 8 Cafe.
Read more ...Christmas family concert
Thu, Dec 02, 2010
ST PATRICK’S Intermediate Brass Band will give a family Christmas concert in St Patrick’s Band Hall, next to the train station, on Sunday at 2pm.
Read more ...Heavyweight dub @ Kelly’s
Thu, Dec 02, 2010
REGGAE AND techno will collide when The Dub Doctors Soundsystem and Revelation Soundsystem play Kelly’s Bar this Sunday at 8pm.
Read more ...Tales of times not so past
Thu, Dec 02, 2010
WHEN THE current recession first loomed just over two years ago, the general consensus by those of a certain age was that it was nothing compared to the dark days of the 1970s and 1980s.
Read more ...The fighting footballers of WWI
Thu, Dec 02, 2010
THE OLD rivalry and enmity between the amateur and professional football codes in England may have led to a battalion of footballers being raised for the British army in WWI.
Read more ...Sarah Clancy to launch debut poetry collection
Thu, Dec 02, 2010
STACEY AND The Mechanical Bull, the debut poetry collection by Galway’s Sarah Clancy, will be launched in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop on Friday December 10 at 6pm.
Read more ...Fintan O’Toole - pointing the way towards a new republic
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
ONE OF our most esteemed political commentators, Fintan O’Toole, is appearing at the Town Hall Theatre next week in a reading/discussion centred around his provocative new book Enough Is Enough; How to Build a New Republic.
Read more ...Villagers - Conor O’Brien cruises into pole position with Villagers
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
CONOR J O’BRIEN first came to national attention with The Immediate. The avant-garde quartet became the toast of the Irish music scene with their debut album In Towers and Clouds in 2006 which was nominated for the Choice Music Prize.
Read more ...The Bahh Band to launch debut album
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
GALWAY GROUP The Bahh Band, whose music fuses Indian classic, Irish trad, and American blues, launch their debut album in Monroe’s Tavern tomorrow at 8.30pm.
Read more ...Woody Allen’s Writer’s Block to receive Irish premiere in Town Hall
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
“I LIKE writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It’s therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is given fingerpaints,” so said film maker, writer, actor, and playwright Woody Allen in a 2005 interview.
Read more ...Frank Naughton concerts at St Nicholas’
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
TENOR FRANK Naughton is promising to dispel some of the doom and gloom pervading the country these days with two seasonal concerts at St Nicholas’s Collegiate Church on Friday December 3 and Saturday 4.
Read more ...Dream folk singer Marissa Nadler @ Róisín Dubh
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
MARISSA NADLER is something of a Renaissance woman. She is a singer, songwriter, illustrator, and painter, who plays the Róisín Dubh on Friday December 3 at 9pm.
Read more ...Damien Dempsey’s charity PREDA concert
Thu, Nov 25, 2010
DAMIEN DEMPSEY has never been shy to voice his opinions on life, politics, and society in his music, but he is also a man who practices what he preaches.
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